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From: "Arch Yeomans" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith builders
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:29:54 -0700
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I doubt we will really ever have any clue of the genetic contributors
to the great megaliths such as Stonehenge. It very well may have been
a mixture anyway. We need to move out of this isolation thought
process. Very few regions in Europe would have been so pure as to only
have one haplogroup in a given region over a given period of time.
Genetics knows no boundaries or time periods. We can posit the
frequency of a subclade or haplogroup over a given region but by no
means does it mean we know who built what. When is just as much as a
stab in the dark as trying to find out who did what and why. I hate
having no answers.

Arch

On 6/2/07, Eric Olson <> wrote:
> Wikipedia says... (?)
>
> Most archaeologists agree the Megaliths of Western Europe were spread by a
> homogenous culture that used the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic
> Seaboard to spread. British Archaeologist Sir Barrington Cunliffe has
> written extensively and mapped the extent of this culture. Recent genetic
> tests confirm that a small percentage of males in each town where a
> megalith is located bear an extremely rare marker on Y-Chromosome
> Haplogroup I, subclade M26. Some have posited this marker tracks the spread
> of the megalithic cultural elite, as its far-flung and otherwise random
> distribution is otherwise inexplicable. (Gatto, et. al., 2007)
>
> Eric Olson
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Didier Vernade <>
> > To: <>
> > Date: 6/3/2007 1:46:33 AM
> > Subject: [DNA] Megalith builders
> >
> >
> > I recently updated my knowledge on megaliths. The earliest known
> megaliths
> > have been dated as early as 4500 B.C. and the "megalithic culture"
> stayed
> > around for 2 millenniums. Were the initiators (6500 years ago) R1b people
> ?
> > What other haplogroup could they be ? The distribution of megaliths along
> the
> > western coast of Europe from Portugal to Ireland is pretty much in
> accordance
> > with R1b. What do you think ? Besides, something dramatic must have
> occured
> > in these tribes to lead to such buildings. I am french and I nether
> learned
> > anything precise on these subjects at school : too mysterious may be.
> Any
> > idea ?
> >
> > Didier
> >
> >
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